Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
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SPONTINI Le metamorfosi di Pasquale (Montesano)
Some great operas received disastrous premieres: Il barbiere di Siviglia, where the audience hissed and jeered and a cat wandered...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2019
SALIERI La fiera di Venezia (Ehrhardt)
La fiera di Venezia – ‘The fair of Venice’ – is quite different from the operas that Salieri composed for...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2019
ROSSINI Sigismondo (Wilson)
It would appear at first glance that the release of this recording of one of Rossini’s more egregious operas has...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2019
PICKER Fantastic Mr Fox (Rose)
Opera has done much during the past few decades to shed its elite, high-art credentials. In many ways, children’s opera...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2019
Daniel Behle: MOZART - Zero to Hero
‘Zero to Hero’ proclaims Sony of a recital that begins with the ‘loser’ Don Ottavio (is he?) and ends with...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2019
MOZART Don Giovanni (Montanari)
They really don’t make them like this any more. Recorded in 2015 and now emerging as a tribute to the...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 11/2019
GOUNOD La nonne sanglante (Equilbey)
La nonne sanglante is drawn from the (very substantial) subplot of The Monk, the Gothic horror novel by Matthew Lewis....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2019
GOUNOD Faust (Rousset)
Hot on the heels of Naxos’s release of the ‘1864 version’ of Gounod’s hit opera (A/19), here comes a release...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2019
CHARPENTIER Les arts florissans. Les Plaisirs de Versailles
Having recently welcomed the first interpretation of Les arts florissants to have been recorded for nearly 40 years, within a...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2019
HANDEL Brockes-Passion (Egarr. Mortensen)
‘In the Brockes Passion Handel comes nearest to challenging Bach, and retires discomfited’, was Winton Dean’s withering verdict in his...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2019
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
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Speakers with onboard amplification make plenty of sense if you want high performance without all...
Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
Review - Audiolab 9000N: ‘A major achievement on many levels’
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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